NVIDIA will release a new generation of Ampere-based game cards at 0:00 on September 2, Beijing time. More than ten days ago, GeForce's official Twitter account began to warm up for this release. Since the release date is very close to the 21st anniversary of NVIDIA's release of GeForce 256, they chose to review the development of hardware and gaming starting in 1999. This article simply sorts out the review content of the official account over the past ten days. The PC on
picture is equipped with a Pentium III 733 processor and a GeForce 256 graphics card. Both are the latest hardware released in 1999, and are equipped with 256MB of memory and a 40x read speed and 8x write speed CD-RW optical drive. Official comment: "We can't imagine having a more powerful PC than this machine."
The first generation of "Rock Coaster Tycoon" was released in 1999. Although it is a 2D picture game, it still achieved great success based on the gameplay and was the champion of PC game sales in 1999.
In 1999, NVIDIA released GeForce 256, which first introduced the concept of so-called graphics processors (GPUs), which brought a revolution in 3D graphics performance and prepared for games around the millennium.
In the same year, the Way It's Meant to be Played brand was launched on the market, and NVIDIA began to steadily enhance its position in the PC graphics industry. Later, The Way It's Meant to be Played became a representative of N-card optimized games.
's first commercially successful 3D MMORPG game - "Endless Mission" was officially launched in 1999, which can be said to set the tone of later MMORPG.
1999 There is also a game mod that quietly swept the PC gaming industry, which is "Counter-Strike".
The sequel to "Cyber Shock", "Cyber Shock 2" was officially released in 1999. The "Cyber Shock" series has little influence in China, but it has had a very far-reaching impact on the entire gaming industry.
2000, an absolute classic of a generation, "Diablo 2" is officially released. Twenty years ago, Blizzard had reached its peak with half its foot. Twenty years later...
Have you ever thought about simulating your daily life in the game world? "The Sims" can give you this kind of experience. The first generation of the game was released in 2000 and became the sales champion of PC games back then. Its popularity remains unabated until today. I just don't know when EA will release 5.
This picture is from Western Data. In 2000, USB eloquence had just begun to become popular. New things like USB drives are still very rare. The capacity of USB drives back then was only 8MB, but they were much larger than floppy disks, so they were also very convenient to carry.
In 2000, NVIDIA brought the GeForce 256's subsequent model - the GeForce 2 series graphics card, the highest-end one is the GeForce 2 Ultra. Perhaps the more familiar to us are the GeForce 2 MX and the GeForce 2 Ti.
In 2000, Epic had already launched their Unreal Engine, and "Breaking Out of the Siege" is a game developed using Unreal Engine.
claims to be the world's first gaming mouse, Razer Boomslang. It was actually released in 1999. It used a sensor that can support 2,000 dpi, and achieved great success.
, released at the end of September 1999, welcomed the "Conqueror" expansion pack in 2000.
With the launch of the new generation of graphics cards, NVIDIA has produced a demo that can reflect the light and shadow effects of their graphics cards. From today's perspective, this demo is undoubtedly very rough, but at that time, it represented advanced picture effects.
Time came in 2001, and EA released a "Black and White" that allows players to be "God".
In the same year, Microsoft released Windows XP.
NVIDIA launched the GeForce 3 series that year, and the picture shows the GeForce 3 Ti 500.
At the same time, NVIDIA released a new demo called nfiniteFX, using the new architecture to support new shading features.
The "One Another Round" series released the third work in the series that year, but "Civilization 3" was not designed by Sid Meyer.
EVGA launched a "asymmetric cooling system" for graphics cards that year. Later, the second version introduced heat pipes for graphics card radiators, becoming the first heat pipe radiator for graphics cards.
In 2001, there were already multiplayer online games on the web, and it was still in 3D, which is "RuneScape".
In 2002, Blizzard launched "Warcraft 3: Governance of Chaos", which has long been recorded in the history of the game. It is only one movie "The Frozen Throne" away from Blizzard's peak.
, and "GTA 3", released in the same year, is a milestone in the history of open gaming.
These new games require stronger graphics cards to run. NVIDIA has launched an improved GeForce 3 series - the GeForce 4 series. The picture above shows the GeForce 4 Ti 4800.
"The Elder Scrolls 3: Morning Breeze" and "Battlefield 1942" and BioWare's first 3D RPG game, "Night Without Winter" were officially released that year.
The first generation of Call of Duty was developed by Infinity Ward Studio, composed of employees who left the studio in 2015. It has a very good taste of "Medal of Honor".
"Cell Division", the first generation was released in late 2002. Since then, we and Uncle Sam Fisher have embarked on a diving journey.
NVIDIA released the GeForce FX 5000 series in 2003. As the first generation of graphics cards that support DirectX 9, NVIDIA suffered a Waterloo on this generation of graphics cards.
RPG game "Star Wars: The Old Republic Samurai" developed by BioWare achieved a very good reputation and sales that year.
Star Wars spin-off game series has never been interrupted. This Star Wars: Galaxy, developed by Sony Online Entertainment, has been in operation for more than 8 years.
has "The Sims", let's take "The Sims", "The Sims 4" was released in 2003.
The new graphics card has a new demo to show its performance. This demo called Clear Sailing shows how the 2004 game can have a fluid and water reflection effect.
Steam and "Half-Life 2" were also officially unveiled that year.
That year, NVIDIA released the GeForce 6 series that fully supports DirectX 9. The picture shows the top GeForce 6800 Ultra.
Alienware released a water-cooled game console that year, and it also used NVIDIA's SLI technology.
In 2004, there is also a game that excited players around the world - "World of Warcraft" has been officially launched.
, and the first generation of Far Cry was unveiled with the CryEngine engine.
The classic "DOOM" series returns to people's sight with "DOOM 3".
In 2005, Youtube was launched, setting off a wave of user-creating content (UGC).
"Age of Empires 3" is late.
The single-core flagship card back then was the GeForce 7800 GTX, which is much stronger than the GeForce 6800 Ultra.
"GTA: San Andreas", a classic in the minds of a generation, a childhood memory of a generation.
is praised by many people as the best generation in "Need for Speed" - "Need for Speed 9: The Most Wanted".
Two years later, IW presented us with Call of Duty 2 and began to create a classic FPS series.
2006, four years later, the "Elderly Scrolls" series ushered in its latest work - "Elderly Scrolls 4: Annihilation".
With the help of Source Engine and various game materials, "Garry's Mod" has set off a trend of funny games.
NVIDIA released the significant GeForce 8000 series graphics cards that year, introducing a general computing architecture and bringing CUDA, which was a significant revolution in the history of GPU development.
In 2006, the latest update of the "Microsoft Flight Simulation" series, "Microsoft Flight Simulation X", was officially released.
In the same year, Twitter was launched and the curtain of Web 2.0 officially opened.
"World of Warcraft" operates well, and the legend of the Sword of Thousands of Proverbs appears in "South Park".
2007, the graphics card crisis.
In order to deal with ATI's Radeon HD 2900 XTX, NVIDIA released the GeForce 8800 Ultra, a generation of card kings.
Sotai released their first GeForce graphics card that year, 7300 GT.
"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" was launched and then on the altar.
There were also "Stalker" and "Mass Effect" that year.
2008, "Fallout 3".
scum optimization famous "GTA 4".
Generation God Card GeForce 9800 GTX+.
, the demo demo named "Medusa" uses the most advanced graphics technology of that year.
The first generation of "The Road to Survival" introduced a four-player online gameplay to fight zombies.
In 2008, ROG released their first graphics card product, EN9800GT Matrix.
2009, "Batman: Arkham Asylum", the overall picture is very outstanding.
The world's best-selling game "MineCraft", also went on sale that year.
The new card GeForce GTX 285 that year took over the position of the King of Cards.
Corsair released their first chassis, the Obsidian 800D.
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" that continues the COD4 legend, but unfortunately IW is about to fall apart.
09, Yang Dao turned his understanding of Dota into an independent game - "League of Legends".
Gearbox created the first generation of "Borderlands" and turned on the FPS brushing mode.
Bioware made a super large RPG - "Dragon Age", which is "Dragon Age: Origin".
In 2010, after many times of delaying the vote, we finally met "StarCraft 2", which is the first part, "Wings of Freedom".
NVIDIA skipped the GTX 300 series and directly launched the GTX 400 series with the new Fermi architecture. The picture shows the GTX 480, which has strong performance, and is severely heated and power consumption.
At that time, some DIY manufacturers had already started to make water-cooled graphics cards, which shows Fermi's heating.
"Mafia 2".
"One More Round 5", before "Civilization 6" launched the first large-scale DLC, the full DLC version of "Civilization 5" was more fun.
2011, "The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim", is enough to enter the palace-level RPG benchmark.
Valve uses "Portway 2" to let everyone see their imaginative creativity that day.
GTX 580.
Razer's first generation Blade is known as the world's first gaming laptop. The small screen on the right was very creative back then.
Suffering first appeared, causing a certain amount of turmoil.
"Terraria" has been online almost 10 years since it was today.
"Black Los Angeles", the developer "perfectly restored Los Angeles in 1947".
"Far Cry 3" may be the most outstanding one in the series in general.
"Diablo" has been an orthodox sequel for more than ten years, but it has been criticized by players.
NVIDIA, with the Kepler architecture, has begun to get on the right track to pursue energy efficiency ratio. The picture shows GTX 680.
changed from "ARMA" mod to "Day-Z" in an independent game.
"Counter-Strike" has also ushered in a new era - "Counter-Strike: Global Action".
"Dota 2", which had three invitational competitions, finally opened its doors after TI3.
"Warframe".
"ARMA 3", and later came out of the battle royale game.
GTX Titan, its radiator appearance design has been used for many generations, called "Titanskin". The Tomb Raider series, which is almost as old as the PC 3D game, has been restarted, and the new Tomb Raider is considered good in all aspects.
2014's Hearthstone brought more people into card games.
Corsair's K70 RGB is a keyboard with amazing effects in the early stages of peripheral RGBization.
Alienware Area-51, classic appearance design, extremely powerful performance.
GTX Titan Black, complete GK110 core.
"Dark Souls 2", creating the "soul game" genre.
"Divine Realm: Original Sin", one of the best inheritances of CRPG.
Logitech G502, Logitech's masterpiece in functional gaming mice, but it is really too heavy.
Unreal 4 engine was officially released at the GDC conference that year.
2015, "Witch Hunter 3", did you play the Gent card today?
ROG released a GTX 980 Ti graphics card to commemorate Asus's 20th anniversary.
"Call of Duty: Black Ops 3".
GTX 980 Ti without backplane.
The producer of "PUBG" created the Battle Royale game mode in the form of a mod in "ARMA 3".
"Under the Legend", a true masterpiece that anyone in my eyes should try.
"GTA V" has finally landed on PC, and God Oil Optimization has got rid of the name of "GTA 4" scumbag optimization in that year.
In 2016, TGA gave the game of the year to Overwatch, which was nicknamed the "pheasant award".
"Witness", a competitive puzzle game.
GTX 1080 Ti, forever divine.
"Rise of the Tomb Raider", it is a decent sequel.
"SuperHot", a game famous for its novel gameplay.
"DOOM" restarts.
2017's most popular "PUBG".
ROG's water-cooled GTX 1080 Ti.
"Ark: Survival Evolution" is also officially launched.
Titan Xp and Star Wars special co-branded graphics card.
NVIDIA is also the most advanced manufacturer to propose the concept of cloud gaming. This business has now developed into GeForce NOW.
"Fortnite" helps Epic to make countless money.
2018, "Forza Horizon 4", finally landed in the PC version of "Monster Hunter: World".
RTX 20 series opens the ray tracing era.
Although the game is not very good, the ray tracing effect is amazing "Battlefield 5".
Logitech's G Pro Wireless is light, wireless, long battery life and excellent molds, creating a generation of classic mouse.
Still need to mention our bald Wu Ke... and "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey".
In 2019, Red Dead Redemption 2, which created sales myths on the console platform, landed on PC.
"Control" has received good reviews.
...To be continued
